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n. A machine that dispenses gumballs when someone inserts coins and uses the handle.
Wikipedia
A gumball machine is a toy or commercial device, a type of bulk vending machine, which dispenses gumballs, usually for a small fee.
Originally one penny, the standard cost of one gumball in the United States is now one quarter.
Usage examples of "gumball machine".
In one, the extraterrestrial visitor lands on Earth, walks up to a gasoline pump or a gumball machine –.
But she put the squad car in gear, flipped the switch starting the gumball machine atop the car and sped after the four-by-four.
They pulled out of the parking lot and as soon as they were on Main Street Mason hit the switch for the gumball machine - the revolving red and blue light on top of the car.
Its legs jerked up and down like the rubber spiders on a string that you get from a gumball machine.
Now it is a curious fact that Dildo never told this story, explaining that he had gotten the Ring from a pig's nose or a gumball machine--he couldn't remember which.
He kept running, with the squad car behind him, siren shrieking, gumball machine flickering angry red, searchbeam jabbing for him.
Spud glanced in the mirror, located the whirling gumball machine in the rear-view mirror, and groaned aloud.
It had a round tank the size of a gumball machine attached to its frame, and for a second I thought I’.
It had a round tank the size of a gumball machine attached to its frame, and for a second I thought I'd been handed a pistol-sized flame thrower.
Next book, a character named Sylvia gets a gumball machine shoved through her face.